Fentanyl: a briefing guide for first responders.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

United States. Drug Enforcement Administration, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First responders--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

First responders.

Fentanyl.

Opioids.

Drug abuse.

Substance-Related Disorders.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Fentanyl.

Substance-Related Disorders.

Genre:

Government publications

Online resources.

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (19 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, [2017]

Summary:

"In the last several years, U.S. Law Enforcement has seen a dramatic increase in the availability of dangerous synthetic opioids. A large majority of these synthetic opioids are structural derivatives of the synthetic drug "fentanyl." Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid currently listed as a Schedule II prescription drug that mimics the effects of morphine in the human body, but has potency 50-100 times that of morphine"--Page 2.

"There is a significant threat to law enforcement personnel, and other first responders, who may come in contact with fentanyl and other fentanyl-related substances through routine law enforcement, emergency or life-saving activities"--Page 2.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF cover (DEA, viewed June 30, 2017).

"Furanyl-fentanyl, acryl-fentanyl, acetyl-fentanyl, carfentanil, 3-methylfentanyl and syntheic opiods."

Other Format:

Print version: Fentanyl

OCLC:

992436109